Distinguished Engineer

About NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure, delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

We are on a path to $10B, and we need passionate teams to tackle real-world challenges. Here, you will see your impact in how customers transform and grow. We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. Our culture rewards initiative, impact, and ownership, providing flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. At NetApp, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

About the Role

This is a technical leadership opportunity to build and scale architecture and experience across multiple cloud environments. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will leverage open-source technologies to deliver platform-as-a-service solutions that power mission-critical workloads. You will collaborate with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures.

You will focus on solving the most complex engineering challenges in service fundamentals—availability, reliability, performance, and scalability—while improving developer velocity through modern CI/CD practices and real-user telemetry-based testing. A key part of this role involves designing fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures for cloud-native services.

Distinguished Engineers at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. To earn the respect of the engineering community and keep your skills sharp, you are expected to code and serve as a role model for technical excellence. At least 40% of your time will be devoted to producing tangible artifacts such as vision statements, design documents, and source code.

Why You'll Thrive

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, and the bold ideas that turn good into great are how our people operate. We foster a culture of learning and experimentation, advocating for best engineering, QA, and operational practices. You will have the independence to act as a force multiplier, delivering on the company's most complex challenges while balancing conflicting stakeholder objectives with empathy for customer needs.

Working Environment

NetApp embraces a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. Most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.